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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | ‘O Thou Transcendent’The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
| | The Last Ever Interview with Ursula Vaughan Williams | Vaughan Williams: | Specially recorded extracts from all The Symphonies, Job, The Lark Ascending, and of course The Tallis Fantasia |
The first ever full-length film biography of the great composer, produced by the multi-award winning director, Tony Palmer. Featuring many of those who knew and worked with him, including the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha, archive performances by Boult and Barbirolli. Also contains newly discovered interviews with Vaughan Williams himself, specially recorded extracts from The Symphonies, Job, The Lark Ascending and of course The Tallis Fantasia. And with unexpected contributions from Harrison Birtwistle, John Adams, Richard Thompson, Mark Anthony Turnage, Barbara Dickson, Michael Tippett and Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys. 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ death and this timely DVD is the first ever full-length film biography of the great man, produced by the multi-award winning director, TONY PALMER, as featured in Classic FM magazine, December 2007. “Quite simply superb. The image of Ralph Vaughan Williams (RVW) fixed in living memory is the ancient, genial, tweedy buffer of the 1950s, characterised by Harrison Birtwistle as 'Mr Badger'… The real man, a literal colossus, courageous, passionate and fiercely original, is obscured in Edwardian mists; but Tony Palmer brings us face to face with him and his genuine stature more dramatically, for all their virtues, than most biographies.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *****  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Soler - Sonatas for Harpsichord Volume 13
“If he lacked the audacious imagination of his teacher, Scarlatti, there are delights to be found among Soler's harpsichord sonatas. Gilbert Rowland, playing a resonant French harpsichord, is an eloquent advocate for this predominantly cheerful repertoire.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 **** | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I
Recording Date: 1991
Place of recording: From the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Running Time: 93 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
“The young Tchaikovsky comes across here as an accomplished, often sober master rather than a spring-heeled individualist. Supreme cellist Meneses's more animated features grace the Rococo Variations.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2007Once again, the program is a tasteful mixture of well-known classics and New Year´s Concert premieres, which include Joseph Strauss´s 'Irenen'-Polka and the valse 'Flattergeister' as well as Johann Strauss' 'Einzugs-Galopp'
Hellmesberger: | Elfenreigen Leichtfüssig | Strauss, J, I: | Einzugs-Galopp, Op. 35 Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 Furioso-Galopp nach Liszt's Motiven, Op. 114 Radetsky March, Op. 228 | Strauss, J, II: | Zivio! - Marsch, Op. 456 Waldmeister: overture Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 | Strauss, Josef: | Flattergeister Moulinet-Polka Delirien Waltz, Op. 212 Irenen-Polka, Op. 113 Matrosen-Polka Dynamiden - Waltz Op. 173 |
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| |  | Soler - Sonatas for Harpsichord Volume 12
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| |  | A dramatic oratorio for soloists, narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra. Text by James Forsyth, based on the "Book of Joshua"
World premiere recording “Waxman's command of his forces is impressive, his general musical language redolent of Mahler and Bloch. Rod Gilfry is a virile tenor soloist as both Moses and Joshua, but Ann Hallenberg is outstanding in the part of the harlot Rahab.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2006 **** | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Herbert Von Karajan in Rehearsal and PerformanceRecorded in Vienna, November 1965 and in Berlin, January 1966
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“An early recipient of a Penguin rosette, this classic 1980 recording blazes with a musical incandescence rarely captured in the studio. One of the all-time great sonata discs.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2006 ***** “Kaja Danczowska's account of the Franck is distinguished by a fine sense of line and great sweetness of tone, and she is partnered superbly by Krystian Zimerman. Indeed, in terms of dramatic fire and strength of line, this version can hold its own alongside the finest" Penguin Guide” Penguin Guide, 1994 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Soler - Sonatas for Harpsichord Volume 11
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